Eye witness accounts from a range of source material, including diaries, letters and newspapers, form the basis of this series. Each book in the series provides a helpful insight into an important period of history or world-changing event.
Praise for Dicken's London: Out of the babble of voices, Michael Paterson has been able to extract the essence of London itself. Read this book and re-enter the labyrinth of a now-ancient city.' Peter Ackroyd
How to Do Things with Books in Victorian Britain asks how our culture came to frown on using books for any purpose other than reading. When did the coffee-table book become an object of scorn?
The story of arsenic in Victorian Britain, looking both at its widespread presence in everything from candles to curtains, and also its more sinister use for murder and suicide.
4 Liberalism and Liberty J. P. Parry The assumption that Victorian Liberalism was concerned primarily with economic freedoms—with the free market, free trade, and laissez-faire— remains widely held.1 Indeed, the still-fashionable idea ...
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37 Compare M. Bevir, ed., Modernism and the Social Sciences: Anglo-American Exchanges, cc. 1918–1980 (forthcoming); D. Ross, ed., Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870–1930 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
Miss A. V. Ponsonby to Freeman, 18 October 1872, in W. R. W. Stephens, Life andLetters of EdwardA. Freeman, 2 vols (London: Macmillan Company, 1895), vol. 2, p. 62. C. P. Fortescue (Lord Carlingford) to E. A. Freeman, 20 October 1872, ...
Chapter 11: Arms and the World 1 FURTHER READING Ames, Winslow, Prince Albert and Victorian Taste. Methuen,. Quotedin H.V. Morton, A Traveller inRome. ... 4 Quotedin David Newsome, TheVictorian WorldPicture. John Murray, 1997, p. 117.
Over the course of several months he appeared in a number of towns around Kent , passed through London to Reading and elsewhere in Berkshire , then Bristol and its neighboring towns , and finally Hereford and Worcester.29 In contrast ...
Gradually evolving from the masted steam frigates of the mid-nineteenth century, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but for the sake of this book the starting point is taken to be Iris and Mercury of 1875.